Commodity crunch is here
No, this isn't about pork bellies In just the last few weeks EMC and IBM have announced their intentions to offer commodity server-based storage. EMC with Hulk/Maui and IBM with XIV. Sun already offers its Thumper product, a high-density server and storage chassis...
EMC’s new flash drives
About time I'm in Silicon Valley for a few days. So I'll keep this brief. EMC is pulling out the stops. First Hulk/Maui clusters and now putting flash SSDs in the Symm. They are positioning it as technology leadership, which it isn't, but it is marketing leadership....
2008: cluster storage goes mainstream
Enough of Google's bathtub brew IBM's purchase of XIV makes it official: cluster storage is on a roll. XIV's website could have been ripped from the webpages of StorageMojo: . . . enterprise-class storage systems typically comprise proprietary, special-purpose...
Microsoft RIFs old file formats – mea culpa
Darn! It looks like I screwed up. I'm sorry. While Microsoft did disable a number of early Word and other file formats, it wasn't as long a list as I thought. Textual analysis I take a text-heavy approach to the content on StorageMojo. I prefer to go to original...
Microsoft RIFs old file formats
"They trusted us with their data? Will the fools never learn?" The Service Pack 3 update to Office 2003 blocks over a dozen old file formats, effectively rendering the data inaccessible. Unless you are adept at the registry editing Microsoft cautions you against. And...
StorageMojo’s Las Vegas weekend
I'm off to America's Sin City for a weekend of good clean storage fun. I'm attending Tom Coughlin's Storage Visions conference. Then I'm sticking around on Monday to take in a few hours of CES, a show I've never attended. There are some storage-related firms whose...
The StorageMojo 2007 prediction scorecard
Can't win 'em all - darn it! A year ago I offered predictions for 2007 (see 2007 in review) and it was with deep foreboding that I went back to look at them. Cynic or optimist? Here's the list and my take on each prediction. Cloud computing? -CIOs realized they are at...
Fusion io does the hard part
Fast, high-capacity flash drive Fusion-io's impressive demo at DEMOfall07 piqued my interest (see Fusion io - great demo. Now comes the hard part.) and skepticism. They've announced some pricing and refined the specs. The ioDrive The ioDrive is a PCIe x4 card with 80,...
Sun/NetApp suit update
Some Christmas cheer Some, not a lot. According to Sun, there have been some significant changes in the mutual lawsuits: In November, the two parties agreed to litigate their mutual lawsuits in northern California instead of east Texas. They are litigating both the...
FastMail fights data corruption
Email is the largest personal database for most people. Easy to search, my gigabyte of email contains contacts, documents, notes and the record of many relationships. I back it up both locally and remotely. But how do I know it isn't corrupted? FastMail's email data...
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